Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Faith is part intuition and part wager. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 466

Man tries so hard to demonstrate in order to avoid the risk that he ultimately cannot avoid assuming. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

Rites preserve, sermons undermine faith. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 454

Faith is not an explanation, but rather confidence that the explication ultimately exists. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 453

Faith is not a conviction we possess, but a conviction that possesses us. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 451

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work. Escolios a un Texto I...

It is upon the antinomies of reason, upon the scandals of the spirit, upon the ruptures in the universe, that I base my hope and my faith. E...

In religious matters the triviality of the objections tends to be more obvious than the fragility of the proofs. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

Nothing is more disquieting to an intelligent unbeliever more than an intelligent Catholic. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 43...

There is some collusion between skepticism and faith: both undermine human presumptuousness. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 4...

What is difficult is not to believe or to doubt—at any time—but to measure the exact proportion of our authentic faith or our authentic doub...

The Christian faith in the last centuries has lacked intelligence, and Christian intelligence has lacked faith. Either it has not known how ...

No principle is convincing and every conviction is uncertain. Faith is not a conviction, nor a principle, but naked existence. Escolios a un...

One must carefully examine the types of apologetics the unbeliever mocks the most: they might be those which disquiet him the most. Escolios...

Modern theologies tend to be the contortions of a theologian who is trying to avoid admitting his unbelief to himself. Escolios a un Texto I...

When the theologian explains the reason for some act of God, the listener wavers between indignation and laughter. Escolios a un Texto Implí...

Faith is not a conviction we ought to defend, but a conviction we do not succeed in defending ourselves against. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

It is as stupid to “have faith” (without knowing in whom) as to yearn for “a faith” (without knowing which one). Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

Whoever wants to know what the serious objections to Christianity are should ask us. The unbeliever makes only stupid objections. Escolios a...

It is not because criticisms of Christianity appear valid that people stop believing; rather, it is because people stop believing that they ...